Re: [PATCH v3 1/4] Documentation/scheduler/sched-deadline.txt: fix terminology and improve clarity

From: Luca Abeni
Date: Wed Sep 03 2014 - 04:27:16 EST


On 09/03/2014 09:45 AM, Henrik Austad wrote:
[...]
Summing up, the CBS[2,3] algorithms assigns scheduling deadlines to
tasks so
that each task runs for at most its runtime every period, avoiding any
interference between different tasks (bandwidth isolation), while the
EDF[1]
- algorithm selects the task with the smallest scheduling deadline as
the one
+ algorithm selects the task with the closest scheduling deadline as the
one
to be executed first. Thanks to this feature, also tasks that do not


s/first/next/

Also, next sentence does not make much sense, I would drop the also;

"Thanks to this feature, tasks that do not strictly comply with the ..."

I agree with these changes, but they are in text that is not changed by my
patch, right?
What should I do? Add these changes to the patch, or send an additional
incremental
patch with these changes?


Patch is about clarity, right? I'd just add it to this patch.
Ok; I'll send an updated patch to Juri.



Thanks,
Luca

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